Word: pea
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...have to be careful about it ... You don't want, in the middle of a war, to go tearing up the pea patch." DONALD RUMSFELD, Defense Secretary, on Senator Roberts' proposal...
...multiple organ failure. Gallstones, lumps of cholesterol that tend to run in families, are a leading cause of pancreatitis. Tests failed to find any in Latham's case, but that doesn't mean they're not there. By blocking the pancreatic duct, stones a fraction the size of a pea can trigger an attack and not show up in scans. When they are spotted, doctors generally recommend their removal by keyhole surgery (although lots of people who have gallstones never develop pancreatitis). When the illness is attributed to excessive alcohol consumption - the other most common cause - patients are told...
It’s hilarious to watch the two men impotently muddle around with their pea-sized brains; it’s Abbott and Costello Meet Hamlet, except that neither man has any idea who’s on first. Broadwater’s Guildenstern is earnest and restless, always yammering questions and never getting answers. Hodgson’s Rosencrantz is a layabout twit, his perpetually gaping mouth suggesting a severely inbred bloodline. It is Stoppard’s genius to make these idiots the carriers of a profound existential dread; in Stoppard’s hands, Rosencrantz...
High school students in pea coats and loafers dragged around by their mothers one directs straight to 8 Garden Street without blinking; and even their requests for somewhere good but not too expensive to eat one is slowly able to fulfill. Are they vegetarian? Do they want hearty American fare, or are they willing to try something more exotic? Then one’s interlocutors start becoming more esoteric. Without even a greeting, a young German girl stops one in front of Lamont to ask: “What famous people went here?” After replying with what...
...Bravo chatter. "No on the workaholic. If you're passionate about something, then it doesn't feel like work, does it?" She fine-tunes her style radar by reading "every magazine known to mankind" and keeps a constant watch on what everybody's wearing. Bravo herself wears a red pea coat and a chocolate zebra-skin tote, both Burberry. "I love the red and the brown together. And isn't this great?" she asks about the bag. "It's so convenient because it opens wide," she says, and in that single exhortation reveals the secret of her success: this...